For those of you who read my blog but otherwise aren't my Facebook friend, I did indeed have my baby :) My sweet, sweet Reese is a few days away from being 4 months old, and is an absolute joy!
And one more...
This was her running Target errands with me today. Is that how that's supposed to work? Don't judge me. For what it's worth, she had a great time like that. Right before this she was showing great displeasure in being in her car seat so this was the only other option...
Anyways, I'm going to have to try to discipline myself to not only post pictures of her on this. She's the best. With that said, she's been a great little ministry buddy as I've slowly gotten back into the swing of things over the last couple months.
This week was our full speed ahead week though, Welcome Week!
That's the first week of school when we scramble to meet as many students as possible, and that's what we did! Our student leaders (Corefas) did an outstanding job meeting and inviting people. The week before school started we probably had 40 students, those are mostly our returning students from the previous year who haven't transferred off yet. This last week, our Kick-off week, we had probably 120-135 students, so that will tell you how much inviting they did! Please be in lots of prayer over these new students as we strive to get them plugged in and help them take their next step spiritually, whatever that may be. For some that's coming to know Jesus, for some that's deciding to actually obey the Jesus they came to know, for some that's teaching them how to make other Jesus followers. Pray God will work powerfully through us to meet their spiritual needs.
We also just got back from our Corefa retreat where we take all of our Corefas from all of our campuses (UTD, UNT, TWU, Collin Spring Creek, Collin Preston Ridge, and Richland) out together to prepare and encourage them for the year ahead. Here's a picture from one of our sessions:
We had about 150 people there. I looked around during worship and tears came to my eyes as I remembered when our winter camp of all the campuses with all the students was smaller than that! God is surely with us and behind us, and for that I am so thankful. Please be in prayer for these leaders as they set out to accomplish big tasks this year. Most have mixed emotions of fear and excitement. Pray for boldness, pray for perseverance, pray for growth, and pray God will do a great work in and through them this year.
Thank you for all your love and support. Much love to you! God is so good!
Bri
